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topper

topper

quickly

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1. topper — de Vaan

topper 'quickly' (Andr.+). Pit *peri 'through, across', *pero- 'on the other side'. It. cognates: Vea per [prep. + ace] 'for', U. -per, -pe, -per,[postpos. + abl.] 'for\ O.per-, Pael.pe-, IJ.per-, per-, SPic. per- 'before, past* < *pers < *per + -s; O. perum 'without' < *pero- 'on the other side'; O. pert, U. pert [prep. + ace] 'until, near', O. pert-, -pert, U. -per, -per 'untir or 'near(ly)' < *per-ti. PIE *peri … — [de Vaan, s.v. topper, p. 473]

2. topper — de Vaan

topper 'quickly' [adv.] (Andr.+) Pit. */orf? */otf? Lat topper is generally regarded as a unfverbation of *tod (nom.acc.sg.n. of the stem */o- 'that') and the suffix -per. Whether the first element really was *tod remains uncertain: in view of the meanings initial tot 'that many' seems equally possible. Bibl.: WH II: 692, EM 695, IEW 1086f, Leumann 1977: 476, Livingston 2004: 17-22. —> so-, tam, toU turn — [de Vaan, s.v. topper, p. 638]

3. topper — Lewis & Short

topper, adv.contr. from toto opere,

I with all diligence, speedily, forthwith (anteclass.; cf.: ab ultimis et jam oblitteratis repetita temporibus, qualia sunt topper et antigerio, etc., Quint. 1, 6, 40): topper citi ad aedes venimus Circae, Pac. ap. Fest. p. 352 Müll.; so Naev., Enn., Att., Cael. ib.

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Where it came from

  • de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. topper (scan p. 473; entry #1305). Root candidates: *pero-.
  • Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. topper (scan p. 521; entry #8526).

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